Year: 2026

MSCI is considering a new methodology that could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from its Global Investable Market Indexes as early as the November 2026 Index Review.  Summary MSCI’s May simulation…

A USENIX Security ’26 study has identified 65,340 high-risk address instances across Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, linking them to 126,982.94 ETH and 17,726.7 BNB in native-token losses.  Summary Researchers…

Bitcoin Red Team has expanded its AI-assisted security review to 501 Bitcoin-related open-source projects, logging 7,958 findings in its latest detailed tally after 108 hours of work.  Summary Bitcoin Red…

Nasdaq-listed SharpLink plans to stake $200 million of Ether through Lido and hold the resulting wrapped staked ETH with Anchorage Digital, expanding its strategy for generating returns from its corporate…

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is reviewing prediction market “mention markets” over concerns that contracts tied to specific spoken words may be unusually easy to manipulate, NPR reported late Aug.…

The White House has reportedly planned an Aug. 19 meeting with crypto and prediction market executives as Polymarket traders place the CLARITY Act’s 2026 passage odds at 21%. Summary Crypto…

Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman Robert Kaplan has backed the Federal Reserve’s 9–3 decision to keep interest rates at 3.50%–3.75% in July, arguing that policymakers needed more time to assess inflation…

Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman Rob Kaplan has backed the Federal Reserve’s 9–3 decision to hold interest rates at 3.50%–3.75% in July while urging policymakers to keep their options open before…

Ether.fi has upgraded its non-custodial neobank with tokenized stocks and metals, portfolio-backed loans near 4%, payments in over 30 currencies, and programmatic ETHFI buybacks. Summary Ether.fi users can trade tokenized…

Conflux Network has scheduled its v3.1.0 hard fork for Aug. 25, requiring node operators to install the update before seven network proposals and a private security fix take effect. Summary…